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Latest News About Mars Science Laboratory, NASA's Newest Mars Rover
The Mars rover Curiosity, also known as the Science Laboratory, will launch in late 2011 and land on the Red Planet in August 2012.
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The tracks made by Mars rover Curiosity call to mind the bootprints left on the moon by Neil Armstrong.
NASA's Mars Science Lab looks around Gale Crater: This color panorama, which includes the highest part of Mount Sharp visible to the rover, was shot by Curiosity's Mast Camera on Aug. 8 and 18, 2012.
See spectactular views of Mars from NASA's Curiosity rover released the week of Aug. 27,2012.
Rapper will.i.am has written a song called 'Reach for the Stars' that will premiere from space.
The Mars rover Curiosity update begins at 5 p.m. EDT.
Curiosity may stop short of answering the ultimate question: Is there life on Mars.
New Angry Birds game comes out on August 23rd 2012 and the new Mars rover highlights the game trailer.
Leave it to some troublesome pigs to take over a multibillion-dollar space project.
One video gives a rover's-eye view of the touchdown in high resolution.
See an amazing view of Mount Sharp on Mars from NASA's Curiosity rover.
Audiences across the country gathered late at night or early in the morning on August 5th or 6th to witness what has become the world wide spectacle of the new Mars rover. Relive the day.
The rover took its first spin on August 22nd, 2012 on the Red Planet. See the reaction from the drivers of the multi-billion dollar SUV-sized Mars machine.
Just after landing a rover on Mars, NASA announced another Red Planet mission for 2016.
The huge robot imprinted "JPL" into the Martian surface to honor its maker.
NASA's new Mars rover is ready to hit the open Martian road after its Aug. 22 test drive.
The Mars rover Curiosity's landing site is named "Bradbury Landing" after iconic author Ray Bradbury.
Prior to rocketing to the red planet, Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera instrument (ChemCam) was tested at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM. Its laser fired at an iron pyrite crystal, first at 3Hz (pulses per second) then at 10 Hz.
Raw photos from the Curiosity rover document its first Martian test drive on Aug. 22, 2012.
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